Re-populating Iffley Meadows

Repopulating Iffley Canal: A reciprocal relationship with landscape (Forterra Drawing Prize and Forterra prize for Technology)

In collaboration with Toby Prest

This scheme aims to create a new rural typology for social housing, aiming to regenerate the landscape of Iffley Meadows through community stewardship. This contemporary typology utilises floating structures to minimise environmental impact on both Oxfords Green-Belt and the biodiversity of the site. Through the inhabitation of waterways, the settlement acts as a prototype for living considering Oxfords future flooding and housing crisis.

(2022) Repopulating Iffley Meadows
(2022) Canal-barge exchange
(2022) Hybrid living
(2022) A Flood resilient community
(2022) Exterior view
(2022) Hybrid living, Interior
(2022) Buoyant Prototype
(2022) Wider model development
(2022) Structural Model
(2022) Buoyant typology development
(2021) Collaborative Process
(2021) Site research
(2021) Iffley Meadows
Circular Economy: Reed-bed management
Contemporary thatch: Assembly

(2021-2022) Building Technology Report:

This project develops the technological response to the regional flooding of Oxfordshire by investigating physical and societal structures that can exist sustainably on a flooded wetland landscape. Thereby introducing a social housing scheme to the canal at Iffley meadows. This report aims to investigate the scheme as a site of exchange with the canal, researching ways in which a reciprocal relationship can be developed. Focussing not only on the ways in which the infrastructure might benefit from the canal but also how the canal might be restored and cared for by the scheme.

(2022) Exploded components
(2021) Facets of community housing